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HB 4122 |
85(R) - 2017 |
HB 4122 would allow a landowner of a contiguous parcel that is greater than 1,000 acres in size and is included in two or more groundwater conservation districts to petition districts requesting transfer of territories for the entire parcel to be included in a single district. Procedures and conditions for petitions would be created and districts would be authorized to enter into agreements with landowners for these purposes.Read More
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HB 4280 |
85(R) - 2017 |
Under current law, Fisher County, Mitchell County, and Nolan County share a juvenile board. If this bill passes, each of the counties would be included in the 32nd Judicial District Juvenile Board. The juvenile board would be composed of the county judges, statutory county judges, and district judges in Fisher Mitchell, and Nolan Counties. This bill establishes a procedure for electing members, certain compensation, meeting times and dates,...Read More
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HB 3130 |
85(R) - 2017 |
This bill would establish a pilot training program that would provide educational
and vocational training, employment, and reentry services to defendants placed
on community supervision and required to serve a term of confinement in a state
jail felony facility. The pilot program would allow for not more than 4 locations
in various regions of the state including locations that have a variety of population
sizes, and the number of participants...Read More
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HB 678 |
85(R) - 2017 |
This bill would modify the procedure for a hearing before a referee or associate judge. Under current law, if a juvenile is subject to a determinate sentence a referee or associate judge may not hold a hearing. If this bill passes, a referee or associate judge would be allowed to hold hearing to consider the disposition of a juvenile case. The intention would be to allow the juvenile to enter a plea or state a stipulation of evidence. After...Read More
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HB 238 |
85(R) - 2017 |
The existing DNA database archives individuals who have been convicted twice of very serious crimes such as continuous abuse of a minor, or indecency with a child, and compelling prostitution. This bill would require individuals who have been convicted, twice, of providing or soliciting prostitution and pimping to this same DNA database. This would include situations where no services or money were exchanged.Read More
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SB 2082 |
85(R) - 2017 |
This bill would increase the number of counseling and advising opportunities available to college students in mentor work-study positions to include offering supporting student interventions that are focused on increasing completion of degrees or certificates.Read More
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SB 42 |
85(R) - 2017 |
Current law requires that administrative judges provide a report to the Office of Court Administration about any security incidents that occur in or around a local court. SB 42 would require the entity providing security to submit this report instead of an administrative judge and requires the establishment of court security committees to oversee and provide recommendations for security measures in and around buildings housing a court;...Read More
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HB 3851 |
85(R) - 2017 |
This bill would allow institutes of higher education to adopt and implement policies regarding the use of epinephrine auto-injectors on the institutions campus including training and allowing personnel or volunteers that are trained and authorized to administer epinephrine auto-injectors to administer the drug to persons reasonably believed to be experiencing anaphylactic shock. Physicians would be allowed to prescribe auto-injectors in...Read More
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SB 667 |
85(R) - 2017 |
This bill would create the Guardianship Compliance Program to review the guardianships of wards and identify deficiencies in guardianship cases. The office would be required to submit an annual report to the legislature on the performance of the program. The bill also would allow the director to notify the State Commission on Judicial Conduct if they have reason to believe a judge has acted in a way that constitutes judicial misconduct. Read More
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HB 431 |
85(R) - 2017 |
Under current law, the parties may agree on a person to try a case if
the justice of the peace is disqualified from a civil case, sick, or absent. A
county judge may appoint a qualified person to temporarily serve as a justice
during the person’s disability.
HB 431 amends Government Code relating to the procedures of appointing a temporary justice of the peace. The bill would clarify that a county judge may at their...Read More
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SB 1782 |
85(R) - 2017 |
The bill would require the Texas Higher Education Coordinating
Board (THECB) to adopt rules requiring institutions to allow students that
re-enroll at the institution or another institution of higher education
following a break in enrollment covering the preceding 24 months and that have
successfully completed at least 50 semester credit hours at an institution of
higher education to drop one additional course from the amount currently
allowed...Read More
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HB 3376 |
85(R) - 2017 |
The bill would amend the Texas Transportation Code to allow for the electronic notification of suspension, revocation, or other enforcement notifications concerning a Driver License, if a customer requests to receive notification via e-mail. It is assumed any costs associated with implementing the provisions of the bill could be absorbed within existing resources. Read More
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HB 3050 |
85(R) - 2017 |
This bill removes the "instructional permit" language from language in the transportation code and replaced it with "Learner's License." This bill would also allow special investigators to not have to reveal their addresses on their licenses.Read More
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SB 1682 |
85(R) - 2017 |
This bill would amend requirements on buildings used as a prescribed pediatric extended care center, including that the space must provide a minimum of 60 square feet for each child. The maximum capacity at each center would be raised from the current 60 to a new maximum of 100.Read More
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HB 516 |
85(R) - 2017 |
HB 516 would amend current Education Code to make a statutory correction where conflicting requirements exist regarding whether a drivers license applicant under 25 years of age must state whether he or she has completed a driver education course. Read More
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HB 2582 |
85(R) - 2017 |
Under current law, aggregate production operations are regulated by the state through registration and inspection, with a few exceptions. HB 2582 would add an exception for an extraction area producing specialty or terrazo-type stone for which the portion of stone that is exposed for current production
for commercial sale in the site does not exceed five acres.Read More
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HB 2580 |
85(R) - 2017 |
Under current law, a savings and mortgage lending commissioner is entitled to obtain the criminal history record of an applicant for or holder of a license issued under Chapter 156 or 157, Finance Code. HB 2580 would expand the types of individuals who could be subject to this information check. It would include an employee or volunteer of the Department of Savings and Mortgage Lending, an applicant or intern with the Department of Savings...Read More
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HB 2328 |
85(R) - 2017 |
HB 2328 would amend the Government Code to allow a governmental body that receives a written request for information and complies with requirements to withhold any information, determined in good faith, that is exempt from required public disclosure without a request of decision from the attorney general. The requestor may appeal the withholding to require a decision from the attorney general within 30 days. Finally, public information officers...Read More
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HB 2061 |
85(R) - 2017 |
HB 2061 would amend the Labor Code to require a party who initiated a workers’ compensation dispute proceeding to file a proposed settlement or agreed judgement with the Workers’ Compensation Division no later than 30 days before the court is scheduled for judicial review. If the terms are not described in the proposal, the party must file a separate document that fully describes the terms of the proposed settlement or agreed judgement. Read More
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HB 1709 |
85(R) - 2017 |
This is a local bill. HB 1709 would create procedures for dissolving the Bois D'Arc Island Levee Improvement District of Dallas and Kaufman Counties if certain requirements are met. Read More
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